Mindfulness interventions for teens decrease mindfulness, study finds

Post by energybored11 » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:34 AM UTC

gary_0 wrote: post #65

harry8 wrote: post #4

Religious studies fails to make kids more religious. Abstinence programs taught in schools fail to increase celibacy. Health programs fail to dent mcdonalds market share. Arithmetic fails to stop people taking on unnecessary and punitive debt. The point being pushing things (good, bad or ugly) in schools often doesn't work out as hoped. Schooling is not a solved problem but it is a very crude tool used badly and ofte…

Maybe because kids aren't stupid and they can tell Western society doesn't practice real piety, doesn't respect celibacy, doesn't care about the health of its citizens, and glorifies recklessness over studious caution? You can't preach what you don't practice. (Hopefully I don't sound like I'm criticizing Western decadence too much. I'm actually a big fan of decadence!)

Post by energybored11 » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:38 AM UTC

beretguy wrote: post #2

> students have learned mindfulness techniques like breath awareness, thought observation, and emotional monitoring as part of their regular curriculum Children are full of energy - they need to be let loose and run around. It’s like trying to teach peaceful and quite a 6 months old dog - you can’t. You need to let them burn all that energy.

Post by gary_0 » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:47 AM UTC

whatshisface wrote: post #70

gary_0 wrote: post #65

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Maybe because kids aren't stupid and they can tell Western society doesn't practice real piety, doesn't respect celibacy, doesn't care about the health of its citizens, and glorifies recklessness over studious caution? You can't preach what you don't practice. (Hopefully I don't sound like I'm criticizing Western decadence too much. I'm actually a big fan of decadence!)

What you're doing is criticizing decadence from an epicurean perspective.

Post by nordstreem » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

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Get out of your routine and introduce some dissonance. Outside is an endless miasma of geometric and color gradient state change overload for the brain, garbage collects the social objects we’re forced to hallucinate. Sit in one spot too long and it all goes fractal.

It's interesting that you say that. Recently I went on a trip where I had my phone and I was largely in urban environments, but I spent lots of time (most of each day) just walking around cities and looking around. I felt so calm and balanced, even though there was tons of noise and traffic and things I might assume would induce stress. Garbage collection of social objects is an interesting way to put that phenomenon…

Post by iteria » Mon, May 13, 2024, 9:18 AM UTC

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And thank goodness for that. Here in the UK we’re in the weird and untenable position of providing state funding for religious schools, so I (an atheist taxpayer) am helping fund these indoctrination attempts. https://humanists.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-s...

> Here in the UK we’re in the weird and untenable position of providing state funding for religious schools Australia has been doing that since the 1960s. State governments fund public schools, federal government funds private schools (the majority of which are religious) The Catholic Church forced them into it by threatening to close its private schools and send all the students to public ones, thereby overwhelming…